New York ‘lone wolf’ was one hour away from finishing his bomb
She also praised the New York Police Department, saying, “I think they handled it well.”
Officials with the NYPD, which conducted the undercover investigation using a confidential informant and a bugged apartment, said the department had to move quickly because Pimentel was about to test a pipe bomb made out of match heads, nails and other ingredients bought at neighborhood hardware and discount stores.
Two law enforcement officials said Monday that the NYPD’s Intelligence Division had sought to get the FBI involved at least twice as the investigation unfolded. Both times, the FBI concluded that Pimentel lacked the mental capacity to act on his own, they said.
The FBI thought Pimentel “didn’t have the predisposition or the ability to do anything on his own,” one of the officials said.
The officials were not authorized to speak about the case and spoke on condition of anonymity. The FBI’s New York office and the U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan both declined to comment on Monday.
Pimentel’s lawyer, Joseph Zablocki, said his client was never a true threat.
“If the goal here is to be stopping terror … I’m not sure that this is where we should be spending our resources,” he said.
Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly defended the handling of the case Monday, saying the NYPD kept federal authorities in the loop “all along” before circumstances forced investigators to take swift measures using state charges.
“No question in my mind that we had to take this case down,” Kelly said. “There was an imminent threat.”
Added Kelly: “This is a classic case of what we’ve been talking about �� the lone wolf, an individual, self-radicalized. This is the needle in the haystack problem we face as a country and as a city.”
Authorities described Pimentel as an unemployed U.S. citizen and “al-Qaida sympathizer” who was born in the Dominican Republic. He had lived most of his life in Manhattan, aside from about five years in the upstate city of Schenectady, where authorities say he had an arrested for credit card fraud.
His mother said he was raised Roman Catholic. But he converted to Islam in 2004 and went by the name Muhammad Yusuf, authorities said.
Using a tip from police in Albany, the NYPD had been watching Pimentel using a confidential informant for the past year. Investigators learned that he was energized and motivated to carry out his plan by the Sept. 30 killing of al-Qaida’s U.S.-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, police said.
Pimentel was under constant surveillance as he shopped for the pipe bombmaterials. He also was overheard talking about attacking police patrol cars and postal facilities, killing soldiers returning home from abroad andbombing a police station in Bayonne, N.J., authorizes said.
Bush's new "Snoop" Executive act
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Ewok, if i knew that i wouldn’t have placed a smiley at the end
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LOL.
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alrighty then :)
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People in the Middle East (which is what I assume your refering to) care if they die. But, they are willing to throw their lives away to fight us. Doesn’t that tell you something? Americans can’t even begin to understand the real problem.
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So, according to you, its alright if we kill other innocents as long as it keeps our soldiers from gettng killed.
i don’t think i said that at all!!!
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So, according to you, its alright if we kill other innocents as long as it keeps our soldiers from gettng killed.
If your doing it to protected your “people” then I say, yes it is.
War is bad, no one has to have good feelings about it.
Why would I care for people in a far away land and not for people right in my own country.
No one gave a Shit about the "innocent’ people in Afghanistan before 9/11.
Suddenly, after 9/11 is hands across the desert for these people.Now Im not saying dont care about the conditions that most of the population deal with , but if it comes down to theirs or ours…well there is absolutely no question.
And no I not saying go out of your way to kill them either.
Innocent lives always lost in modern warfare. -
You know when we invade Iraq, for no good reason, the TV camera’s will be showing tanks, buildings, and palaces being destroyed. I never saw 1 person being killed in any of those. Nor have I ever seen any casualty number of innocents in any “war” the US has participated in during my Lifetime. When we invade Iraq, we are going to make innocent people suffer because Bush want’s to get reelected.
On the better note, it seems Colin Powell is threatning to leave the White House. He’d make a great Democratic Nominee for 2004.
Heres a question to put to President Bush. If we’re in a real war, why doesn’t the US 1) Treat the Prisons of this “war” as prisoners of war. And 2) Treat these Prisoners of War according to the Geneva Convention.
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Colin Pow for 2004– I would vote for him! :wink: But for a Democrat, I dunno about that. Maybe he would be better off as a independent or Green Party (yeah, right! :D). I’m sure Colin hasn’t forgotten about what Clinton did to the military :x.
As for invading Iraq, I think President does have a good reason. Saddam is straving children in Iraq each day (and lets not forget about his war crimes against minorities and other political fractions). I remember that BC’s were forbidden only the Geneva Convention.
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Oh, so now we’re invading for Humanitarian reasons. Strange, theres been no talk of invading Sudan, Somalia, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Syria, Libya, or Israel.
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Don’t worry, they’ll get theirs. However Bush said he won’t invade unless Saddam does something stupid (like invade Kuwait [sp]), meaning there might never be an invasion.
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Bush will invade, are you kidding me? He’s practically told Congress he doesnt care what they think, and he’s said outright we’ll gone in alone if no other countries will help us.
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Seriously? Nah, I don’t think Bush has become that much a of little dictator yet. (Well unless he even wants to go against his own cabinet and chiefs of staff)
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THE Geneva Convention can suck my Co** :)
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Yeah, try saying that when your country is invaded, and you have to undergo brutal treatment by the occupants. Better yet, try saying that to the US Marines in the Pacific that did not have the Geneva Convention to save them from the merciless Japanese.
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u bet ;)
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I hope that was not some sort of joke, for I would hate to see the disastrous consequences of what would happen if we did throw out the Geneva Convention. Or worst yet, I have seen them… :(
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u are a very nice person ;) i just wanteed to say that
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Why thank you, Sir DasEwokSS :) :D
You are too for a Ewok :wink: -
o ur Welcome :) and thanku aswell. and most Ewoks are very nice, u just have to get to know them. they just chose the wrong side in RotJ but they are nice once u get 2 know them ;)
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I’m not so sure about Ewoks, it seemed like all they wanted to do was get drunk and sing forest chanties. Sounds like my kind of life! :wink:
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